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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 217607" data-attributes="member: 68">I don't think her weight had anything to do with it. As others have pointed out in the thread BBG had a personal style and she just incorporated that into Miss Ellie's wardrobe. The two dressed the same. Also she had had a mastectomy which influenced how she dressed. She was a grown woman with a son of JR's age. I don't see how she should have dressed differently. When you look at how Patricia Shepard dressed it's not all that different. Light dresses and jacket. Even at that Patricia is a very different woman. Rebecca Wentworth is usually a little more well dressed in fancier clothes but when we meet her she's still involved in business somewhat and is a wealthy woman with an entirely different personality to Ellie's too. She's not a ranch type woman. Just do a quick google search and see that Ellie was very well dressed and she's not always in a sack dress. And when she is they are still very pretty. I think saying she looked dowdy is a bit rough. As is saying she clearly wasn't making an effort to look attractive anymore. We are talking about a woman, a real woman who was on arguably the most watched television show of the decade. Of course she wanted to look well. Of course she made an effort to look attractive and she did look attractive. She looked great. I am really trying to figure out how people wanted her to dress? I mean nice as Donna Reed was I think everyone agreed that the way she dressed was in complete contrast to who Ellie was and that's what made the recast so unacceptable to most. Ellie wasn't that kind of woman. She wasn't first and foremost a "Rich Lady" that's not what she was about.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?